Nobuyuki Sanada

Nobuyuki Sanada (1566-12 November 1658) was the daimyo of the Kozuke-no-Sanada branch of the Sanada.

Biography
The son of Masayuki Sanada, Nobuyuki was sent as a hostage to Shingen Takeda to prove his father's loyalty to the Takeda clan. When the Takeda were destroyed the Sanada became independent and moved to Ueda castle in Kozuke Province, where they beat off a Tokugawa attack in 1585. As a recognition of the Sanada's resistance, Ieyasu Tokugawa married Ina, the daughter of retainer Tadakatsu Honda, to Nobuyuki.

With the Sekigahara Campaign, fought between the pro-Tokugawa overlordship Eastern Army and the Toyotomi loyalist Western Army, Nobuyuki sided with his wife's Honda clan, while his brother Yukimura and father were supporters of the old Toyotomi Shogunate. His brother and father attempted to capture Numata Castle from him but failed only due to the defeat of the Western Army at the Battle of Sekigahara in late 1600. After the war he was made the daimyo of the Sanada, and the other family members were punished for treason. He died in 1655, ruling the the Matsushiro clan since 1622.